Mate, it isn't quite nearly the same for Europeans.
Irrelevant. Just because you work for a US company that does not mean your kids should go to US colleges.
As an employee I want to be paid the highest that anyone else is paid for the same work. More so if the value generated is the same regardless of location. Yet I can understand employers wanting to help maintain sustainable communities, even where cost of living is high.
Governments too want some control over their currencies and its value.
That said, Russian and Chinese developers had the same happening in companies in the UK.
